Alexandre Desplat Quotes
It's very hard to understand what's happening in someone's brain and what goes into their experience and their death, and the music has to say a lot.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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The worst I think that I ever was, when 'Unforgettable' had come out, and not long after that I was on - I was on my way to my second divorce. And that was a crushing, crushing blow.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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If Dana White can offer a contract that's not one-sided, and it's not cumbersome to the point where we look at it and realize that we can't fight for him, then we'll fight in the UFC.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.
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The interweb's got a weird vibe.
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When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
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I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz.
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I drive a big Dodge truck. I drive American cars.
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Tourism is our second biggest industry in terms of the people it employs.
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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
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A talib fires three shots at point-blank range at three girls in a van and doesn't kill any of them. This seems an unlikely story.
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I was fiercely independent and ambitious from a very young age.
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What you are is a man who means to be good, and undo the bad he’s done, and that’s as good as any man ever gets.
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Modern PCs are horrible. ACPI is a complete design disaster in every way. But we're kind of stuck with it. If any Intel people are listening to this and you had anything to do with ACPI, shoot yourself now, before you reproduce.
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The mental never influences the physical. It is always the physical that modifies the mental, and when we think that the mind is diseased, it is always an illusion.
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Whether writing fiction or nonfiction, I've never had the sense I was 'making up' a character. It feels more like watching people reveal themselves, ever more deeply, more intimately.
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I was hugely relieved to discover there was a purpose for girls with loud voices.
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Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldn't consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper.
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Plus I love Tanya Tucker and I love country music.
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In the Arctic, the Inuit are saying water and land are the same; they're an unbroken unity. In the winter, you travel on the ice because it's the linkage and the easiest way, and in the summer, you move around on the water.
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I deal with first-hand sources. And give the people, even John Sununu, the opportunity to respond to what I've been told by first-hand sources.
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It's very hard to understand what's happening in someone's brain and what goes into their experience and their death, and the music has to say a lot.
